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Elvie Mae Parian

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As seen in: Mashable, The Nerds of Color, Women Write About Comics, Video Game Choo Choo
Covers:  Animation, International Animation, Animation Industry, Comics, Film, Indie Press, Video Games, Video Game Industry
Doesn't Cover: Business & Finance, Health, Politics, Sports, Weather, World News
making moving pictures, forging funny words, & putting out product as PeckNOrder ✦ @thegamesline's social media producer ✦ she/her ✦ EN 🇺🇸/TAG 🇵🇭

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Elvie Mae Parian’s Biography

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I'm a visual artist by day that also like weaving things with words with the rest of my time. I cover and share my opinions on media that fall under geekdom, from animation, to comics, and video games. She/her.

Elvie Mae Parian’s Journalist Portfolio

Making Phoenix Wright Canonically Asian American and Why That Is Important (to Me)

Making Phoenix Wright Canonically Asian American and Why That Is Important (to Me)

Spoiler warning: This piece will allude to events that take place after the original It is the year 2021. We …

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Pixar's 'Float' is Not Just About Representation, But an Authentic Experience

Pixar's 'Float' is Not Just About Representation, But an Authentic Experience

Representation is not just about putting a diverse array of faces on a product and calling it a day, but it i…

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An Inclusive Future: A Recap of Game Devs of Color Expo 2020 | Sidequest

An Inclusive Future: A Recap of Game Devs of Color Expo 2020 | Sidequest

Like many shows this past year, the Game Devs of Color Expo took things entirely online. GDoCExpo was origina…

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It Was Inevitable: An Interview with Tarn Adams on Dwarf Fortress | Sidequest

It Was Inevitable: An Interview with Tarn Adams on Dwarf Fortress | Sidequest

Dwarf Fortress has established itself as a focus of cult admiration. Though Dwarf Fortress may not be immedia…

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Cooking and Camaraderie: How Delicious in Dungeon Encourages Accessible Fantasy - WWAC

Cooking and Camaraderie: How Delicious in Dungeon Encourages Accessible Fantasy - WWAC

Delightful and delectable as the food concocted in the series itself, Delicious in Dungeon is the introductio…

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Podcast Interview: Cat Solen (Adult Swim's The Shivering Truth)

Podcast Interview: Cat Solen (Adult Swim's The Shivering Truth)

On The AFA Podcast this time Elvie Mae Parian got the chance to chat with director and producer on The Shiver…

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

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By Elvie Mae Parian
| Women Write About Comics Verified
Here at WWAC, we’ve been fans of Kate Beaton for a long time, so we were especially excited for the publication of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, Beaton’s highly anticipated memoir of her time working in the isolated Alberta oil-mining camps. At over 400 pages of Beaton’s distinctive intimate and emotional style, Ducks is a remarkable addition to the graphic memoir genre, at turns hilarious and heartbreaking, telling a story I, personally, had never known.
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‘Inbetween Girl’ Shows How Maturity Sometimes Means Accepting Your Mess

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By Elvie Mae Parian
| The Nerds of Color
The road to adulthood is messy, imperfect, and unkind. Media depictions of adolescence tend to rule these realities out, or otherwise forgoes depicting representation of this demographic at all. But the truth is, sanitizing the experience does not hide the mistakes and many questions that will inevitably be made along the way.
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The Healing Magic of ‘Marvelous and the Black Hole’

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By Elvie Mae Parian
| The Nerds of Color
The “face” of the coming-of-age story has been changing: It is not that teenagers have changed — far from it in fact, when the woes of adolescence remain one of the most universal parts of the human experience — but it is apparent in recent years that the default notions of what a “teenager” should look like has changed to be better reflective of what the viewing world needs today.
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